Number of 2020 vulnerability disclosures set to overtake 2019

Despite a sharp decrease of 19.2 percent observed earlier in the year, vulnerability disclosures in 2020 are expected to exceed 2019's level according to Risk Based Security. The company's VulnDB team aggregated 23,269 vulnerabilities disclosed during 2020. Despite the initial disruption from COVID-19, the trend of total number of vulnerabilities suggests that business operations and routines have normalized as the gap has closed to 0.98 percent. "2020 could be titled 'The Great Catch-up'. We saw an incredible drop of 19.2 percent in Q1, but with each subsequent quarter that massive gap steadily closed," says Brian Martin, vice president of vulnerability… [Continue Reading]